Old Dead Oak Tree

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Thought this may be one of those dead ready to burn Oaks I hear about well it ain't and the land owner said it has been dead about 10 yrs and that big branch fell down about 3 yrs ago so I started on it. The bigger stuff water ran out of it when I hit it with the hyd. splitter.
So it will get stacked with the rest of the Oak and wait its turn.

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I have got several like that, but I dont have the back to mess with it right now.... They are monsters and lost them all in the past 3yrs....

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Not on my place but that broken off branch is big as a tree I probably wont tackle the rest of it. My back is killing me now and today I just brought home 1 load which I split right there and bring 1/3 cord home at a time. I was going to put some sideboards on truck to haul a little more but, thats good for now, I am usually wore out.

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Nice score Capt........you've proven what's been said all along, that even alot of the dead trees need time to season before burning. That stuff will be good to go in two or three years, and its well worth the wait if you ask me. I got a huge.oak to do myself that blew over on my neighbors' property. I'll save that one for winter.

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In the Red Oak group,guessing its a Southern Red.Very hard to tell them apart without leaves,bark,acorns or a microscope on the end grain.

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Dont forget buds, twigs, and leaf scars!!

I knew a few of them but did not do so well on the twig test in school. Now i have forgot everything that i knew about them.

I did get A's on all the quizes and tests though. We had to learn something like 140-160 tree species in Dendrology!! 10 years later i can mostly identify the trees in this state common and uncommon. With latin names for about half (we had to know genus species and family and common name for all those trees and once you had it it was fair game on the future tests!). I am good on most of the oaks though with leaves!! Scarlet and N red can give trouble if you cant get to the leaves...

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Give it about 6 months then split one of the pieces you just got and recheck it. I have found stuff that is dead standing tends to dry a lot quicker than something that was living and cut. Sometimes I have found stuff like you were showing that was ready for burning after about 3 months of being split. I know it isn't always the case but it's worth a shot.

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I knew a few of them but did not do so well on the twig test in school. Now i have forgot everything that i knew about them.

I did get A's on all the quizes and tests though. We had to learn something like 140-160 tree species in Dendrology!! 10 years later i can mostly identify the trees in this state common and uncommon. With latin names for about half (we had to know genus species and family and common name for all those trees and once you had it it was fair game on the future tests!). I am good on most of the oaks though with leaves!! Scarlet and N red can give trouble if you cant get to the leaves...

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My eyes arent good enough to differentiate between various buds,twigs & leaf scars.